I'm transparent

Mr. M and I are working on a new project, but today I took some time to go visit our neighbor. We were of course out of town last week and they were in Mexico visiting her family. I adore their twins (boy and a girl), they are basically my niece and nephew since the real ones are 4 hours away. We usually see each other everyday and they can now say my name. It's amazing watching kids learn to talk, I remember it so well with my own, and I'm really enjoying it with the neighbors now.

As soon as I walked in the door one of the twins L, said my name excitedly and then told me "papa, work, gone." He's a flight attendant and will be away for the holiday so they will be joining our family for dinner. As they finished eating and we cleaned them up, L went over to her mom and said "Queen, wine." I almost died. She knew that as soon as we gather at each others home we offer a glass of wine to one another and she was making sure that I got mine as quickly as possible. It was so cute, and yet so scary, lol. We then played for a little while and got them into bed. It was so adorable, they had to come tell me goodnight after we had read a couple of books together and Mom was trying to get them to lay down. We of course caught up and had a nice evening together while Mr. M got some time with the boys. Now we'll be getting ready for Santa to visit and be thankful for so many wonderful people in our lives.....